KING GEORGE THEATRE

Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 13, 27 August 1941, Page 3

KING GEORGE THEATRE

$&&&***** a heroine A tb« k JperabQs.df Donald fcolman and Milter toake ."Lucky Partners" a* drtighttul a vmcldetii as ever »a| celluloid. Colman plays an mist who eontends that every marriage should %»ffh!*wmpTi*hoaejTnoon. Jack earson, an ftjfcSrancfeman anjl fiance of. Miss, doesn't believe, in such f obllahnesfsj ~,and the artist.. insists. that Jf | Qinger's sweepstake ticket wins, he miwt be allowed to take the girl on a strictly platorilc trip to some aflAMerica's beauty spots before she settles down to patrimony. , Thq tickets wins, much to ,the ir-' ritation of the groom. r.But "the piatonic feature of the affair quickly melts in the romantic atmosphere of Niajgara Falls. The resultant happenings; the film a hilarious and vastly engaging photoplay -that is certain /Jo do standout < business throughout its

, . "VIRGINIA." 5* ' Smoothiyblendlng stirring drama and bright comedy, Paratflount's new tfechnicolour production, "Vir- 1 ginia," will be presented at the Klng ( G6orge Theatre on Friday,next, with M£taeretne tTarroll and Fred MacMurray in the starring roles. FeaHayden, a young screen newcomer, In an important role, the picture tells an exciting story of a modern Southern girl, reared' in the North, who comes face to face with the problem of .having, to between the-North and the South, rbmanticaily speaking. Occupying chief featured roles in ithdifllurTire Helen Broderi<flt,:Marie Wilson, Paul Hurst, Tom Rutherfurd, Louise Beavers and Leigh Whlpper. • • • DE LUXE THEATRE

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY "A LETTER OP INTRODUCTION" Fine, great dramatic situations .nttfrspersed with hilarious comedy moments march grandly across the screen of Universale John M. Stahl Letter of Introduction," wtefh opens at the Xhe,atrm?y^edneßday. Mr f , AND ' Chilean bajjtoae, appears on Horseback," an .ill colflipra musical romance, starring Lilnj^mita. 34TURDAY, TUESDAY. j /'ALL AT SEA." - / 'Apart .from the wonderftil scenes ( pf the and the hilafious antics of ,gadfly Powell, one of the. first great" t nayal war-time pongs, "Oh, Atn't it, Grand, to be in the Navy," £andy Powell, is featured in "All At Sea," and another aspect of the entertainment Qualities of the film isF-the ball and cabaret held aboard ship.

"All At Sea" was directed by Herbert Smith, and supporting Sandy Powell are Kay Walsh, John Warwick, Gus McNaughton, Leslie Perrins and Geprge Merritt. PLUS "WHEKEJ did you get that GIRL." The story relates the adventures ot a talented young swing band striving for success. Necessity ol Identity after they' have become famous, leads to hilarious complications in what has been described as one of the year's gayeat laugh films. ' , !•; t V ' • • • PRINCE EDWARD THEATER NOW SHOWING "Pinocchio," Walt Disney's longawaited successor to the #e&Batloaally successful "Snow White iand the Seven Dwarfs," is his own challenge to his first feature-lehgtfr Droduction. Where "Snow White, and the Sevejy JJw»rfj»" amazed . with its beauty,' and charm, "Pinocchi«'' startles and excites with the tremendous scope of Its ingenuity and the iotc,e of its story, along with e'nchantUigs. whimsy. Pius George O'Brien in "Fighting Gringo," a Western drama. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY "Hopalong" Cassidy becomes part of the organised force of law and order, rather than his own dealer of justice in his newest Clarence E. Mulford exploit, "Santa Pe Marshal," William JSoyd .stars as "Heppy." — AND — Authentic revelations gathered by J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in his years of crime detection wotks, serve, as the basis for the exposure of parole corruption in the new Paramount picture "Parole Fixer."' The picture is based on his -well-known book, ' 'Persons in Hiding." SATURDAY AND MONDAY. "40,000 HORSEMEN." The story is of courageous men, gallant horses, and that find comradeship, bom of war, which is the uAdying bond- of soldiers. It- blends adventure, $py melo-dramaand romance into the great -history- of the Anzacs iq Palestine in the last war. — AND — • "Keeping Company" brings -you a hosfyef ybtik favourite screen ters. The film is the story of two families, the Thomases afld fihe Fos< • of nary Thomas (Ann Rutherford) to Ted Poster (John J3heltonJ«